Shop and showroom finishes, worked around your trading hours.
Sales floors, display walls, shopfronts and back-of-house painted in zones and after hours, with stock covered, glazing kept clean and each area handed back ready to trade.
- Free site inspection
- Written, itemised quote
- 1-year workmanship warranty
- Same-day callback
At a glance
Can a shop be painted without closing it?
Mostly, yes. We split the floor into zones, put a barrier between the working zone and the customers, and push the dusty preparation into the closed hours. Water-based emulsion carries its pigment in water rather than solvent, so there's little to evaporate and little to smell once the film starts drying. A deep unit with weak ventilation holds onto whatever smell there is for longer, so primers, oil-based work on frames and shutters, and anything solvent-borne go into the closed hours regardless. What genuinely can't happen beside customers is spray work, floor coatings, and any access that blocks a walkway.
When this is the answer, and when it is not.
Sending you to the wrong service wastes your money and our time. This is how to tell.
This is likely right if
- The sales floor looks tired next to your fit-out, scuffed at trolley height, marked around the till and fitting rooms
- A rebrand or refit means walls have to be matched to a colour reference you've been given
- Gondolas or wall racking have been moved and the walls behind them are full of anchor holes and shadow lines
- You've taken over an existing unit and want the previous tenant's colours and patch repairs gone before you open
Something else comes first if
- The shopfitters haven't finished, fixings drilled into a fresh wall chip it, and every chipped edge has to be refilled and re-coated, so painting follows the fit-out rather than going ahead of it
- Ceiling tiles or wall panels are stained from an air-conditioning drain or a leak from the floor above, which has to be traced and closed first
- The unit is a bare shell handed over for first fit-out, bare blockwork and fresh plaster need a different sequence and a different specification, so that's new construction painting rather than this service
What the service includes.
Survey in trading conditions
We walk the unit while it is open and again when it is shut, to see where footfall, stock and lighting actually sit. That decides the zones and the shifts.
Protection and isolation
Stock and display units sheeted or moved with your staff, shopfront glazing masked, walking routes covered, and sprinkler heads and detectors masked rather than painted over.
Repair and levelling
Anchor holes from old racking filled, plywood and gypsum partition joints taped and skimmed, then sanded flat and feathered well past the repair, because track spotlights rake a display wall at a shallow angle and any ridge left around a filled hole throws a shadow the full width of the patch.
Colour matched to your reference
Tinted to the brand reference you supply and brushed out on your own wall, then judged under your own shop lighting rather than under daylight.
Finish coats in the agreed sheen
A washable finish where hands, trolleys and stock make contact, a flatter one on long display walls where grazing light would show every roller lap.
Open-ready clean and handback
Sheeting, tools and debris out at the end of each shift, masking pulled from glass and edges, the zone walked with your manager before it returns to trade, and a labelled tin of each tinted colour left with your team for small touch-ups.
Not included, or quoted separately
- Signage, fascia lettering, backlit boards and vinyl graphics, manufacture and fixing sit with your signage supplier
- Shopfront glazing, roller shutter mechanisms and shutter repair
- Moving, dismantling or restocking display fixtures, and any handling of merchandise
- Electrical work, including relocating track lights, spotlights or sockets on a wall we're painting
- Work permit fees, night access charges and deposits levied by a mall or complex management
The sequence.
Survey while you are open
We look at the floor in use: where customers stand, what the lighting does to each wall, and which surfaces take daily contact.
Zoning and shift plan
The unit split into work zones in a sequence you agree, and where relevant submitted through your mall's work permit process before anything is booked.
Protect and separate
Hoarding or sheeting between the working zone and the trading floor, fixtures and stock covered, glazing and detectors masked.
Prepare the surface
Loose coating scraped back, holes filled, joints skimmed, then sanded and primed. An old shop wall is often a thin skim over plywood, if that skim is loose, the new coat lifts with it.
Sample, then coat
The colour approved on your wall under your lights, then coats applied to the agreed specification with edges cut in by hand.
Zone handback
Each zone cleaned, snagged with your manager and released back to trade before the next zone is opened up.
What moves the price on this job.
We do not publish a rate, because it would change once someone measured your property. These are the variables that decide it.
- Measured wall, ceiling and soffit area, including display walls currently hidden behind fixtures
- How much of the work must happen after trading hours, and what the mall's permit conditions allow
- Condition of the existing surface, anchor holes, patched partitions and a previous tenant's texture are the largest variable
- Deep or saturated brand colours, which need a tinted base and often more coats to cover evenly
- Sheen level, and how scrubbable the low-level finish has to be
- Access: mezzanines, high shopfront soffits, and walls reachable only once fixtures are shifted
Retail Shop and Showroom Painting — your questions.
Can we keep trading while you paint?
Usually yes, and what decides it is the barrier, not how fast we work. A sheeted frame stops dust but not sound or smell; a boarded hoarding stops all three, but it takes floor space and a mall will normally want it standing before work starts. Whichever we use, it goes up before any sanding begins, and the working zone keeps its own access and material route away from your customers. Spray application, floor coatings and ladder work in a customer walkway are the exceptions: those need the area shut, not just screened off.
Will you match our brand colour exactly?
We tint to the reference you supply and brush a sample onto your own wall. A colour code is a target rather than a promise: the same tint reads warmer under spotlights than under general shop lighting, and matt and sheen versions of one colour never look identical. You approve the sample on site, in position, before the full quantity is mixed.
The walls are behind racking, do you paint them?
We paint what's accessible once your team has emptied or shifted the fixtures. We don't dismantle or move fixed shelving ourselves. Where a run is staying put, we mask to it and paint up to that line. The line is agreed at the survey and written into the quotation, so nobody discovers it on handback day.
Do you work overnight?
Where the site allows it. A standalone shop usually can. A unit inside a mall is governed by the centre's work permit, which sets the hours, the access route, the goods-lift slot and often a requirement that hoarding is standing before work begins. We apply through that process and plan the shifts around what it permits.
How do you handle the marks a trading floor puts straight back on the wall?
Low level takes the punishment, trolley bumpers, bag corners, feet at the fitting-room bench. We normally specify a washable emulsion to roughly a metre and a half, or a tougher scrubbable system on the worst-hit runs, and leave a small quantity of the tinted paint on site so your staff can close small marks between visits. Touch-up from the same tin is not invisible, a rolled patch flashes where the new film meets the aged one, and grazing light finds the edge. Dabbed small and low down on a washable finish it sits in with the traffic marks around it; a whole panel is better re-coated wall to wall.
Let us look at your walls first.
Tell us about the property and we will set up a free colour and wall inspection. You get a written, itemised quotation afterwards, with no obligation to go ahead.
- We call you back the same day to get a picture of the property and the surfaces.
- We agree a time and come out for the free inspection.
- You get the written scope and itemised quotation.
- Nothing starts until you approve it.